Home Owner's Loan Corp. v. Stookey

Prince E. Stookey, one of the defendants, made and filed an affidavit, pursuant to 1933 Session Laws, chapter 218, section 4, page 464, 'that he had reason to believe, and did believe, defendants could not have a fair and impartial trial before Honorable Miles S. Johnson, Judge of the District Court of the Tenth Judicial District, by reason of his bias and prejudice against them. Defendants’ attorney petitioned the governor to request another judge to try the case. In the petition the attorney recited, among other things, that the judges of the adjoining districts, especially in the northern…